January 14, 2025
Call to Order
Attendance: Town officers, guests
Clerk's Report
Treasurer's Report
DECEMBER 2024
Total Funds on Hand 12/1/2024 $273,596.96
Plus: Deposits $25,056.68
--Interest on Accounts 681.48
--Tax apportionment 23,640.20
--Township Aid 735.00
Less: Disbursements $16,086.89
--Payroll 2,062.65
--Other Expenses 1,524.24
--Fire & EMS 12,500.00
Total Funds on Hand 12/31/2024 $282,566.75
Checks Written 2096-2115
JANUARY 2025
Expected Receipts
Checks Written 2116-2123 $1,865.66
No transfer to checking needed
Old Business
- Update on West Branch Road
- Update by Bonnie Dressen on Invasive Species grant request
- Public Purpose Doctrine email handed out by Doug Dressen last November 2024 meeting
- March Town Election - Deadline to apply for Supervisor position, Absentee Voting, date of election (March 11, 2025, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.)
- Laptops update (Ray, Carol, Lita)
New Business
- Guest speaker Tom Getchell, Pequaywan Fire Chief, will discuss next years’ budget requirements
- Weed Inspector contract pay rate increase request for approval from $20.00 to $30.00
- New law requiring townships that have a website to change to .gov web address
- Boundary and Annexation Survey
- Board of Audit Meeting scheduled after the January Board Meeting
Correspondence
Received:
- Email and postage mail from St. Louis County Planning and Zoning re-draft of the Floodplan Ordinance
- Email from St. Louis County Elections re-new Affidavit of Candidacy form
- Email from the Department of Revenue stating that the Board of Appeal and Equalization Training is live and available for all voting local and county board members
- Email from St. Louis County to fill out the Annual Report of Outstanding Indebtedness for 2024 and return the completed form to them by February 1, 2025
- Email from the U.S. Census Bureau re- 2025 Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) – to review and update the legal boundary, name, and status information the Census Bureau has the townships
- Invoice from Daisy Wallace for December 2024 web maintenance in the amount of $212.50
Sent:
- Blank Affidavit of Candidacy forms
Public Comment: The Public Comment section is a courtesy extended to persons wishing to address the Board. If you wish to comment during the Township Meeting, follow the protocol below. One public comment per citizen which is limited to two minutes. Submit request by the first Saturday of the month to peqclerk@gmail.com with your full name and comment information. The board can either address the issue, assign someone to address the issue, or do nothing.
Public Comment Request: None
Next Meeting, February 11, 2025, 7:00 p.m., Pequaywan Firehall
Adjourn